As people steer away from cigarettes, more are smoking tobacco from hookahs, large communal pipes that draw tobacco smoke through water. It appears though that while smoking cigarette has long been ...

Megan Gardner sits with a group of friends, socializing in a smoke-filled room around a Middle Eastern water pipe. Mellow music plays in the background. Authentic artwork adorns the hookah café's ...

Gathered around tables inside a crowded cafe near the University of Arizona, young smokers inhale flavored tobacco from hoses attached to water pipes that are intended for sharing. Smoke with a sweet ...

Chemists at the University of Cincinnati find that hookah tobacco heated electronically kills 70 percent more lung cells than traditional charcoal. The study suggests the surprising health culprit ...

Hookah-tobacco users might want to rethink how they heat up their water pipes, based on new research. Tobacco in hookah pipes is normally burned with specially made charcoal briquettes, which can ...